June 28, 2005

"The Last Kiss" starring Scrubs actor Zach Braff is scheduled to begin filming in Madison tomorrow....

"The Last Kiss" is about a group of 30-year-olds struggling with adulthood.

Zach Braff? Never heard of him. What the hell? I can't even remember what "Scrubs" is. Anyway... big excitement and road blockage. But Madison's a good choice for a place to be 30 and struggling with adulthood, isn't it?

Late Tuesday morning there's a whole lot of pacing on a Bascom Hill. Every time someone shouts "background!" people start moving in well- orchestrated lines around a couple that includes a blond woman in a long ivory jacket.

The woman in question is Blythe Danner, the Tony Award-winning stage actress also known for "Meet the Fockers." The man she's filming the scene with is Harold Ramis, of "Stripes" and "Ghostbusters" fame.

Hey, I looked out my window today and saw two weird park benches bolted onto the Bascom Hill walkway. That's got to be for the movie. I look forward to looking out my office window tomorrow and seeing Blythe Danner and Harold Ramis emoting in exactly the same spot where I looked out the same window twenty years ago and saw Rodney Dangerfield.

10 comments:

Hmmm...I thought you might being a little facetious...but I think you're not. Scrubs was (is? Did it get canceled?) great for those who "get" Arrested Development-esque sitcom humor. Zach Braff did the big critically aclaimed Garden State with Natalie Portman last year. I think he wrote it or directed it too or something. Sorry can't tell you much more about that movie though, fell asleep while watching it...

ploopusgirl, you don't have to be high class in order to be snobbish, you just have to think you are. Now you see the absurd essence of "Milwaukee snobbery."

Actually, is anyone aware of a national sentiment that people from Milwaukee are very picky? Particularly when it involves money? My dad told me once after he travelled on business, and I'm pretty sure I read it online somewhere.

"But Madison's a good choice for a place to be 30 and struggling with adulthood, isn't it."

God. How depressing! Shouldn't you be in your early 20s and struggling with adulthood!?!

Apparently you missed the Time magazine cover story about "betwixters." It is all about how American youth is waiting longer and longer to take on adulthood. Some even waiting until they are late 20s, early 30s. Like me.